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Author Reece, Steve, 1959- author.

Title Homer's winged words : the evolution of early Greek epic diction in the light of oral theory / by Steve Reece
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 413 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Mnemosyne. Supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 313. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 313.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
Contents CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; PART ONE CATEGORIES OF JUNCTURAL METANALYSIS; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Junctural Metanalysis in Middle English; Chapter Three Junctural Metanalysis in Homeric Greek; Chapter Four Junctural Metanalysis in Homer Owing to Nu-Ephelkystikon and Final Nu; Chapter Five Junctural Metanalysis in Homer Owing to Movable and Final Sigma; Chapter Six Junctural Metanalysis in Homer Owing to Movable and Final Kappa; Chapter Seven Junctural Metanalysis in Homer Owing to Vocal Elision; Chapter Eight Junctural Metanalysis of Homeric Toponyms
PART TWO INDIVIDUAL CASES OF JUNCTURAL METANALYSISChapter Nine An Homeric Problem / An Aeschylean Solution?ß??? / Gaß???; Chapter Ten Whence the Selloi of Dodona? Se???? /?????; Chapter Eleven A Peculiar Particle ta? / a?('); Chapter Twelve Folksy Thersites f????? / (ef)?????; Chapter Thirteen Epic Knees / Ep' Icknees???- /????; Chapter Fourteen Homeric Headdresses and Citadels;?ata????e? /?at' a????; Chapter Fift een Homer's Asphodel
Summary This book is an attempt to shed new light, via the tenets of oral-formulaic theory, on the evolution and meaning of several dozen words and phrases found in early Greek epic whose etymologies have puzzled philologists for over 2500 years
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-381) and indexes
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Subject Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Homer fast
Forchenbrunn, Herwerd von gnd
Subject Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
Oral tradition -- Greece
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Epic poetry, Greek
Oral tradition
Etymologie
Mündliche Literatur
Wortschatz
Greece
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047427872
9047427874
6612401028
9786612401022